• someguy3@lemmy.ca
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    Reddit hot sorts more by popular, so things take a long time to rise up.

    Lemmy hot seems to be (too much) biased to new. Can be a bad thing because it looks like things don’t get popular. They do but you don’t see it by hot, you see it by top 12 hour.

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      Early 2010s Reddit was so addicting, if there was something in the world it was on the front page in 15 minutes. I remember being excited to check on Reddit after waking up to see that was the event of the day.

      After 2016 the algo was screwed up and it became a cesspool of reposts and news were late to show up.

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      I think the algorithm for Lemmy’s hot sorting is just based on interactions within time unit. The newer the post, the more valuable an upvote is.

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      1 year ago

      The one thing current Reddit seems to do right is give smaller subreddits a chance to show up on Hot. Lemmy tends to be a little too simple, and the frontpage gets dominated by the one or two big groups.

      • Wxnzxn@lemmy.ml
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        Yeah, I’m pretty happy with the sorting algorithm in general for the way content gets presented, but some weighting to better include smaller communities would be great. Lemmy is still struggling with getting a critical mass in users to support niche interests, and a better post sorting could help a bit at least.

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        1 year ago

        Now I learn this, 2 months after tossing that platform in the bin.

        After years of wondering where the hell the breaking news went…